[Bug 1556527] Re: tzdate upgrade fails wih invalid format error during Xenial upgrade

[iMac]

Below is the output after I made the change and continued the 16.04
dist-upgrade process.

820 upgraded, 17 newly installed, 3 to remove and 144 not upgraded.
215 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/494 MB of archives.
After this operation, 142 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
Setting up tzdata (2016a-1) ...

Current default time zone: 'Etc/UTC'
Local time is now:      Sun Mar 13 02:49:09 UTC 2016.
Universal Time is now:  Sun Mar 13 02:49:09 UTC 2016.
Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it.

(Reading database ... 398777 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../python-cairo_1.8.8-2_amd64.deb ...

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Title:
  tzdate upgrade fails wih invalid format error during Xenial upgrade

Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Everything looks fine;  Not sure what is invalid about the format.  I
  am EST, the output is in UTC.

  Breaks the upgrade after from 15.05 at a point where is says it
  completed with errors, but some 200+ packages remaining.

  
  Setting up tzdata (2016a-1) ...

  Current default time zone: 'America/Toronto'
  date: invalid date 'Sun Mar 13 02:32:57 UTC 2016'
  dpkg: error processing package tzdata (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   tzdata
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: tzdata 2016a-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-30.36-generic 4.2.8-ckt3
  Uname: Linux 4.2.0-30-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Mar 12 21:35:07 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-22 (507 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: tzdata
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-03-13 (0 days ago)

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